i am Sirius

What other purpose could we have but to be Love and to extend Love? This is not a romantic or impractical observation. Rather, in Love all else exists and thrives. Without this recognition we struggle in a separation mind-set that opposes the intrinsic nourishment and enrichment and joy of our true Self.

I am intrigued with the word "happiness" as applied to an aspect of our Source, beyond duality where all is separate and individuated, judged and labeled.

What is the fundamental element of such elevated and eternal happiness? What is its quality? It certainly cannot be compared to the happiness experienced within the illusion (wealth, success, relationships, fame, artistic expression, etc.), for these are ever-changing and insubstantial. Here, one moment we are happy, and within hours or days or months that happiness has shifted. We cannot hold onto it.

It is claimed that the happiness attributed to Source is constant. Could this spiritual happiness simply be the experience of harmonizing with all things, such that all differences and judgments fall away, leaving one continuous expression of union and communion with Creator?

I am speaking of spiritual knowledge here, not mundane. earthly matters that require dividing truth from lies. Truth is experienced through direct knowledge...there is a "knowing" that is based on instantaneous certainty. The ego, however, employs various styles of convolution, misdirection, symbolic voodoo, multiple paths "to the mountaintop," and degrees and levels of interpretation, thus obscuring real Truth. It even envelops its truth in "mystical" qualities, thus potentially drawing an individual into an inflated ego state that sets the person apart from others as having "special" knowledge.

But Truth does not hand select some over others. Truth is available to all. The ego hates this. It attempts to separate special or higher "wisdom" from Truth, special holders of knowledge from know nots, chosen ones from the masses.

The only mystical aspect of an ability to know directly is the "mist" that the ego casts to cause complication and complexity, uncertainty and separation. Truth is simple and direct. It does not require study, rituals, or interpretation. It is available God Mind to our mind, and from one to another mind to mind. We do not have to earn Truth by "paying our dues," nor must we guard Truth from those the ego deems unworthy.

Inasmuch as we are all connected and direct "descendants" of the One Source, each of us is inherently plugged into Truth. Only the ego, with its "mystery" agenda, bars us from our true knowing. That, of course, is the crux of the matter. Ego works mightily to construct "appearances" that confirm the illusion of unworthiness and separation.

The only way to overcome the work of the ego is to recognize its false existence and to deconstruct its seeming "appearance" in our lives. Truth is simple. Truth is. .

this is a somewhat different slant on "forgiving," which is usually meant to be done as one human to another with, usually, compassion and love...but what if we, as ego-bound humans are incapable of forgiveness...what if, because we as egos project onto "others," we are seeing only illusionary hurt, slights, pain, etc....even illusionary "healing" through forgiveness...inasmuch as all experience within the illusion is unreal, then even forgiveness here is unreal...how then to achieve what we call forgiveness at a more meaningful level...

what if we are to consider a new way, a true way...if we cannot heal ourselves (from this dream of separation), then we must go to higher consciousness, so that: all projections of separation (hurt, slights, pain, etc., included) are seen as "for" "giving" to Holy Spirit, who intermediates between the Real and the unreal, between spirit and flesh, between body and mind...and in doing so erases all that is not True...including ideas of separation...

as long as we live in the illusion, dreaming ourselves to be separated beings, we cannot gain the oneness that we say forgiveness offers...we can either know ourselves as whole, pure beings or see ourselves as sinful, hopeless, errant beings who need to forgive one another our various "sins"...there are no other options...

we either are or we aren't as originally created...pure, whole, blessed beings...our error in seeking forgiveness is that we hold to the idea that "we" can bring about oneness (togetherness), while still being in a dreaming state of separation...the only real solution is to recognize that our present condition (consciousness) can only be lifted through higher efforts, the efforts of the agent of God/Source, the Holy Spirit, who alone knows the way to awaken us from our slumber...

thus, all of our separation thinking (projections) are "for giving" to Holy Spirit to heal and whole, bringing us in consciousness to awakening to our true and original perfect and pure nature...in his hands we come to know the Truth...

if the term Holy Spirit is uncomfortable, please substitute from your own culture or system similar words...the bottom line, though, is that forgiving is "for giving" to Holy Spirit, who alone bridges between Source and us dreamers to reveal our true nature...

please let me assure you that i have no religious affiliation but, as with many of you, have studied many different disciplines over the decades...so please open your heart to the greater meaning of "for giving" (to a higher power)...

with love for all, namaste...

do they intersect harmoniously with it or do they falsify it?

Do past and future impede our ability to be present in full awareness? Is any moment embellished and enhanced by them or is it camouflaged and ignored when memory and imagination are at play?

We reach backwards and forwards in constant regret, fear, judgment, or longing while overlooking what is before us...what is really before us. In doing so we veil the Truth, playing parts we rescript through past and future considerations, all the while missing communion with Now, the only possible moment there is.

Do memory and imagination serve any true spiritual purpose from your perspective?

the Love beyond physical or emotional, or even mental love?

For myself, it has happened so many times in Nature, where my mind quiets and i became one with my surroundings. I also experience this Love when i look deeply into the eyes of an infant and experience their incredible innocence. Both ways i am able to "fall in(to) Love."

It seems, at these times, that nothing else exists but this most amazing communion...the communion of union...union with All That Is.

Where/when have you known this Love? Please share your own Love story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz7D8e3tv-M

Regardless of one's faith or religion, can Krishna Das's narrative resonate as a description of being real, being awake, being at one with the universe and with Source/God? When we no longer fear our "personal" life being threatened in any way, by anything, and no longer have to protect or hoard or see ourselves as lacking in anything, are we not then fulfilled...full filled with Love...simply filled full in the most "extra" ordinary way...magnificently provided for without restrictions, without barter or bargains, without having to earn our way?

The prospect of living life in this way, unencumbered and embracing all with Love, is so "love"ly, so enticing and amazing. Yet here we are (myself included), living so small and limited...clinging to the boundaries we've placed because we fear letting go. It makes me weep...both for the limitations we hold so dear and for the prospect of embracing boundless, inclusive Love.

that shall be destroyed is death."

Is death merely the absence of life as we know it? Or is death indicative of life here in the dreamt illusion, a living death spent in separation consciousness? If the latter, then to overcome death, as the verse indicates, would be to awaken from the dream?

What we seed is what we see; what we grow is what we show. Simple words, enormous effects. We

live as the potentiality of being that which we are in Truth: Love, Light, Peace, Joy. On paper (or on the computer screen) these are one-dimensional words that lie flat and lifeless. Still, they are what we are as boundless beings contained in the One.

Yet we seed and grow limitation, fear, judgment, uncertainty. Is this truly our birthright as beings brought forth in Love and Light?

How must we overcome a state of mind that denies our birthright? Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is within, implying that it already is and could never have been otherwise. But to see it we must be it...be Love, be Light, be Peace, be Joy, and in being these we join with others at the place within that we all share, reminding ourselves and them who we are in Truth: the one Son of God, created in His/Her/Its image.

We cannot see what we are not being. To intimately know Love, we ourselves must sow the seed of Love; likewise with Light, Peace, Joy. In doing so, we extend the promise inherent within: that we are all one.

If some say, "We cannot be what we cannot see," they abide in the outer appearances of things rather than abiding in the inner altar of the Kingdom within where Truth lives. Appearances are deceiving, and always open to multiple interpretations by oneself or by a multitude of others. rising, falling, shifting, changing, coming and going. However, the Truth stands inviolate and unchanging, shining forth in its bright glory as God/Source/All That Is. We are That.

We simply must Be It.

the peace that passeth all understanding mentioned in the bible?

We hope for peace, long for peace, strive for peace as human beings. Yet, if achieved, it seems to disappear one way or another, though it might be called back or recreated at other times, in different ways and in different contexts. What does this earthly peace give to us?

And what is the peace that passeth understanding? Is it something we can know as part of the dream we are dreaming? Or is it incomprehensible here?

All desires, hopes, and preferences are but ego-driven, holding us captive to an illusion of reality that does not exist. None of these wishes serve awakening to our true and original essence, since they simply reinforce the dream of separation.

Could the desire for peace be the one valid desire within the illusion that opens us to Reality? And if so, why is it valid if other desires are not?

to what end?

Referencing Gertrude Stein's famous line, ""A rose is a rose is a rose," does this not apply to anything we can perceive, including the illusion itself? Then, as part of the illusion, how can we find our way out of it? Must it be that we can only navigate out of the dream using some of the dream elements?

Would it be true, then, that to awaken from the dream we must use aspects of the dream itself as a steppingstone? Does this present a conundrum? A paradox?

What is Love's function in eternity? i am not speaking of mundane love, relationship love, love that is traded as a commodity.

This question is difficult to frame because of the limitation of words, since we can only ascribe human qualities to an unknown. Yet it is said we are Love. How do we know this and what does it mean for our experience here, whether we know or not?

This Love is described as permeating all things...It does not select some and reject others. Then why are we so unaware of Its presence?

If we realize we have no choice in the matter of being Love, could we experience life differently?

Listen to a child's beautiful prayer song:

http://www.staged.com/video?v=NtK

Doesn't this child's innocent plea enter your heart center and bring a gentle remembrance of our connection to all sentient beings?

even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" signify? (Matthew 5:48 KJV)

Could it as easily be read as, "Ye be therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect"? What would this bring to the spiritual table...to have our perfection presented to us so clearly and absolutely?

Is it even conceivable that Perfection (the Father/God/Source/All That Is) could generate imperfection? Then, if we be perfect, what is this world of imperfection but an illusion?

Is it not simply a natural sense of "I am," knowing with certitude that we (something about us, including the body, but also greater than the body) exist? Is this not the one thing we know unequivocally about ourselves, though we might question everything else? Is this not the first thing of which we are conscious, our primary essential Self?

If this is our baseline (knowing "I am"), then to what is it rooted, from what does it arise? What is aware of this sense of presence, of the "I am"?

not only our own human limitations, but contained also within the limited parameters of a dream illusion? Would not "knowing" (Truth) exceed all parameters? Yet we continue to reach for knowing within the confines of the dream; is this foolhardy? Or is it necessary to stir remembering?

do we simply discard it? Considering that we are creatures of habit, well conditioned to the ego's ploys, do we not need to employ the ego to unravel its hold on us? For instance, if we fully accept our essential and original nature as true, do we then have no more work to do? Or must we continue to be vigilant to the egoic ruts and grooves that we've fallen into...the habits and patterns that are so subtle as to escape our attention?

In other words, mustn't we still watch for the hidden, but well-established conditioning that we have long overlooked, even now in discovering that it is not real? In this way then, doesn't the ego still serves us, but with our full knowledge until we have revealed all its holds on us?

or does the story happen spontaneously in spite of our interference?

Consider that subtle prompts are given that impel us to actions that we have not consciously chosen, such as spontaneously reaching for something or standing up to stretch without having a prior thought about these movements. Or perhaps instantly being moved to call a friend or pay a bill or go for a walk...each independent of any context that makes sense to the conscious mind.

Life goes on in this way without our active and deliberate choices, so what is it that is responsible for this spontaneous and intuitive "living" for which we often take credit (i.e., "I am the author of my own fate.")?

For instance, i have just spontaneously paused in my writing and leaned forward with one hand on my hip and the other folded into a fist supporting my cheek, elbow resting on the keyboard support...but i did not "think" to do so. It just happened. So my question is, what caused this action? Then apply my question to the entirety of the life that we seem to "choose" to live. Are we the captains of our fate? The co-captains? Or is there something greater that moves through us, willing us to Its way?

We often hear conflicting reports of Truth from sages or awakened masters, which causes confusion and perhaps distrust. So is Truth paradoxical, and if so, why? Or are the masters less than "realized" ones perpetrating a fraud on their followers?

For example, if in satsang a master tells one sanyassin one thing, then in the next breath tells another sanyassin the exact opposite, what doe this tell us about Truth (assuming the master is fully awakened)?

Does it simply mean (in this example) that Truth can only be imparted in spontaneous teachable moments directly applied to the unique context of the individual, and that each individual requires a different aspect of the Whole Truth, though they might appear to be paradoxical?

In one example from a story, the master told one follower that he/she was the ocean, then told another she/he was a wave, and yet another that he/she was nothing. In each instance, the master revealed the Truth to each one. What can be made of this?